Going down fighting

From a message sent to someone earlier, in response to my thoughts on the situation here in the US:

As to the situation in the US... ugh. *Headdesk* Trump should never have been allowed to get past the primaries. He lost the popular vote and yet still "won" because of the Electoral College. I had some hope they would change their minds when they actually voted on December 19th, but that hope was dashed. I honestly hope he and Pence and their entire cabinet die soon. I don't know that impeachment and removal from office would get rid of Pence or the others, and honestly they scare me more than Trump does.

It's a sad state of affairs when someone can be a conman, a criminal, be utterly pants at diplomacy, and be committing treason with the help of a foreign power (Russia in this case), and still get "elected."

Honestly, if we all survive this, the electoral college better damn well be disbanded permanently. It's outdated, designed for the horse-and-buggy days and honestly was a stupid idea even then.

My roommate keeps urging me to leave the country, she wants to do the same. But I have real face-to-face friends here in Portland. If I move anywhere else, that might change. I rarely ever had any f2f friends in my life before, being a weirdo in Iowa of all places (think the suburbs, but with cows). And I like Portland, it's nicely weird, and I love rain. And I've got mental disabilities that affect my physical health, I'm dependent on the government for money. I don't know what I'd do for money in another country. But if the orange diarrhea stain removes or severely cuts Social Security, or adds LGBT people to his concentration camp list, then I'm kinda fucked. So I honestly don't know what to do, and my roommate still hasn't figured out after years living with me that I freeze up in face-to-face talks about serious things, and can't think. I need texts and emails to think properly, and she hates communicating that way.

I've been watching this TV show called Designated Survivor, about this conspiracy in the US government that results in the capitol being bombed with all congressmen, senators, and the President present except for one congressman who had been fired that day for some stupid thing, but he was still the designated survivor, so he becomes President. He wasn't in on it, he's the protagonist, he and his team have to uncover the conspiracy and work to expose it.

I bring that up because the dude who became President because of being the designated survivor, he is a totally awesome President. A good man, with a good heart, does what he thinks is right. Certainly better than anyone we've ever had to my knowledge. Not perfect, who is, but he's got a good heart and his position before that was interesting... he was in charge of HUD, the Housing and Urban Development people, who among other things are the reason I have a place to live that doesn't leave me completely broke all month long. (I live in low income housing.) So yeah, when you're thinking "Hey, I'd rather be in that universe than this one," you know this one is bad.

Trump... he's hiring all these bigots and literal neo-nazis to his cabinet, as well as more billionaires. He ran on the promise of "drain the swamp," but at this rate the ocean is going to reclaim the country. Trump is showing all the historical danger signs of becoming someone like Hitler, it's terrifying. But of course since the Republicans said similar things about Obama, it makes us look like we're overreacting too. But I genuinely don't believe we are. Fuck, now I'm half convinced they did that shit on purpose with this goal in mind. I say half convinced because so many of the GOP were outspoken against Trump during the election, I doubt they were in on it.

Terrifying. Even if he's only as bad as Reagan, Reagan was still responsible for thousands of deaths by laughing at the AIDS epidemic and doing nothing to help. But whatever happens, I'm not going down without a fight.

I do hope we ARE overreacting, that Trump isn't going to be as bad as the signs he's giving off, but every time I hope, lately, it gets dashed. I'm kind of afraid to hope for the best, in case that hope is what's causing all these bad things to happen.

But yeah, if I can't get out, if it gets as bad as we fear, I'm gonna go down turning American flags into Molotov cocktails and throwing them at the forces of oppression, daring them to come through me to get the people I'm protecting.

Anti third party BS again

In response to some dumbass bitching about the tiny percentage of 3rd party voters whose votes could have gotten Clinton elected instead of Trump, this was I said:

I'm fucking terrified of Trump and his minions, honestly, and you would have every right to feel the same. But that doesn't excuse your shitty attitude toward third party voters. If enough people voted third party, we wouldn't be in this fucking mess to begin with. Blame the corrupt two-party system, blame the electoral college (it's outdated, designed for horse and buggy days, and was an idiotic idea even then), blame Hillary for getting too cocky, blame the Media for giving the orange diarrhea stain a platform from which to spew his neo-Nazi rhetoric, or you can even blame people who didn't vote, but if you're gonna blame people who are so disgusted with a clearly corrupt and shitty system that they decided "fuck this, going with a third option," then you are an Authoratarian fool.

It's because of people like you that shitstain Clinton was able to get the Dem nomination, when it clearly should have been Bernie. Honestly, blame the DNC if you want for running such a corrupt pile of shit as Clinton when the other option was Hitler Reincarnated, because that was monumentally stupid on their part. Even if Bernie supporters hadn't been harsh against her in the primaries, even if they all got enthusiastically behind her when she "won" the primaries, even if the third party voters went with her instead, it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference because anyone who could lose to someone as ridiculously unqualified and horrible as Donald Trump is just not a strong enough candidate. Capable of doing the job, sure, but there's far more to being a good President than just capability. And enough people were upset with the shitty system that they wanted someone who fit the stuff that went with the rest of that, ignoring his capability. He talked a good game, to people stupider than sea slugs (the majority of US citizens, in other words), and she didn't do as good a job. Which is hardly surprising. Most of her campaign was basically a mix of stealing Bernie Sanders' ideas and going "LOL Donald's an idiot and deplorable, I can do better." What were her actual campaign promises? What were her political ideals? What did she bring to the table other than "I can do a better job than Trump"? No really, I want to know, because I don't remember. Hell, I voted for Obama and I didn't even remember that Clinton had run against him in that campaign til halfway through the second half of this last one, that's how little impact her campaign has had on the minds of the average citizen. I can remember a lot of Obama's promises from that campaign, but I can't remember a single fucking thing Clinton promised in either campaign that wasn't stolen from Bernie Sanders. At least Trump had a clear and compelling message of "I'll help the little guy," even if it was transparently a fucking lie to anyone with a brain.

Futhermore, this country hasn't been a democracy in decades. The results of the election were fixed far before it happened, probably before the campaigns even began. The 1% who are the actual rulers of the US decided who would win, and for whatever reason, they decided on Trump. Everything else is a clever ruse to disguise the fascism. (And Hell, they probably went with Trump because they were tired of hiding the fascism.) I really don't think anything shy of cutting all their fucking heads off, burning the system down, destroying the entire US government, and replacing it with something better would have made any difference.

So nitpick all you like, the fact is that Clinton won the popular vote, and Trump got the Presidency anyway because electoral college people are volunteers, they could be anybody, nobody picks them. They're probably all billionaires, part of the ruling 1% elite, or at least in the pockets of such people. Also, the recounts have uncovered massive voter fraud with Russian involvement, I'm pretty sure you're complaining about ants ruining the picnic and ignoring the giant proverbial bombs the Russians dropped on us with Trump's assistance.

Honestly, even if you're right, you're complaining about entirely the wrong thing. You sound like those Republicans who bitch about welfare fraud and ignore the billions in subsidies going to corporations, and the trillions wasted on military overspending. Even if we were to somehow go back in time and convince all the third party voters to vote for Clinton, that's still the equivalent of plugging up a small hole in the boat while a whale is busy biting off the front half of the boat.